Really quickly, let me show you how this hack is going to work, we're going to make use of a feature
that has turned on all the way back to early versions of Windows like Windows XP, Windows 2000, all
the way to the brand new seven eight, Windows 10 Windows 10.1.
You'll be able to use this feature to to break into a computer once you see how to do these few steps.
But let me show you, first of all, the concept.
So if I'm on just notice I'm on a Windows PC here, all I'm going to do is press the shift key five
or six times.
One, two, three, four, five.
And you see something comes up called the Sticky Keys assistant.
This used to be the handicap accessibility or the set high contrast.
There have been lots of names for this over the years from Windows XP all the way up through the newest
Windows 10.
But this is giving us the sticky keys option.
If you press the shift key five or 10 times, you'll be able to get a pop up window just like this one.
This is a file that runs whenever someone hits the shift key repeatedly.
The keyboard shortcut you can see here to turn on sticky keys is to press five times.
And this gives us the ability to make the shift control and alt keys sticky.
So if you have limited mobility in your hands or you only have one hand free while you're doing something
or you have any ability that requires you to use the shift and then press a key or control, then press
the key all the imprecisely.
If you can't hold both down together, then you can turn on sticky keys and it's a handy feature and
it's built into just about every version of Windows that exists.
So we're going to use this.
I'm running this on a Windows seven box, but it works great on Windows 10 as well.
And we're going to use this to get a back door into the computer so that we can add an administrative
user.
The cool thing to know about this is that even works from the login screen.
So if I log out.
And come to the login screen, I can hold down the shift key five times from here, and this is the
key that makes the sticky keys attack so powerful is that we can cause a window because a program to
run before we've even logged into the computer.
So if you have an old desktop computer, an old laptop computer that's running Windows that you need
to get into, but you don't remember the password, here's how we're going to do it.
We'll see that coming up in the next lesson.